http://tidbits.com/ Apple has made it so easy to download and purchase iOS apps that our iOS devices are becoming unwieldy, and while apps can be deleted from devices and from iTunes, they can’t be purged from our accounts. en-us Copyright 2012 TidBITS Publishing Inc. Thu, 13 Dec 2012 00:00:00 EST Thu, 13 Dec 2012 00:00:00 EST editors@tidbits.com (TidBITS Editors) editors@tidbits.com (TidBITS Editors) http://tidbits.com/images/tb_logo_152x55.png http://tidbits.com/ 55 152 TidBITS badge http://db.tidbits.com/article/13349?rss#comments_16939 Thu, 13 Dec 2012 05:17:30 EST http://tidbits.com/article/13349#comments_16939 http://db.tidbits.com/article/13349?rss#comments_16479 Wed, 07 Nov 2012 18:28:36 EST http://tidbits.com/article/13349#comments_16479 http://db.tidbits.com/article/13349?rss#comments_16475 Wed, 07 Nov 2012 12:01:19 EST http://tidbits.com/article/13349#comments_16475 http://db.tidbits.com/article/13349?rss#comments_16471 Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:43:34 EST http://tidbits.com/article/13349#comments_16471 http://db.tidbits.com/article/13349?rss#comments_16470 Tue, 06 Nov 2012 16:34:22 EST http://tidbits.com/article/13349#comments_16470 http://db.tidbits.com/article/13349?rss#comments_16469 Tue, 06 Nov 2012 16:04:12 EST http://tidbits.com/article/13349#comments_16469 http://db.tidbits.com/article/13349?rss#comments_16468 Tue, 06 Nov 2012 15:48:50 EST http://tidbits.com/article/13349#comments_16468
Interesting that it's missing under iOS 6. Do you have to sync apps (rather than just using iCloud) to be able to hide them on the phone from the desktop?]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/13349?rss#comments_16467 Tue, 06 Nov 2012 15:41:56 EST http://tidbits.com/article/13349#comments_16467
The main thing that's lacking is that it doesn't work on my iPhone 5 under iOS 6, which was the main place I was testing. Swiping left or right on items in the Purchased list does nothing. This also doesn't work on an iPhone 4S running iOS 6 or an iPad 3 running iOS 6.

However, on my original iPad running iOS 5, it is possible to hide purchases in this way.

The iTunes procedure does work, and does seem to have the desired effect. Plus, it iTunes (though not on the iPhone), you can sort that purchased list too.

This renders the article almost entirely pointless, so I'll put a note at the top explaining. Sigh...

Thanks for the quick catch!]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/13349?rss#comments_16466 Tue, 06 Nov 2012 15:00:14 EST http://tidbits.com/article/13349#comments_16466
I've just come back from an overseas trip where the selection of apps I needed was quite different to the ones I use when I am at home. (I needed language translators, guidebooks, city walks apps, etc and didn't need my GPS app, supermarket apps, etc.)

But the only way I can see to manage this is to make a list of the ones I use at home and how I have them arranged, Now there is no way as far as I can see to even get a list of apps out of iTunes. There is the capability to print the page containing the purchased list mentioned by the previous two posters, but it only prints the top of the page and none of the apps. So I am reduced to the tedious process of writing them all down on a piece of paper.

This brings up another gripe: the name displayed for the app in the iPhone is often completely unrelated to the name it is shown as in iTunes, and I have not been able to find anything other than the icon that allows me to match them up.

In between trips, I don't really want to get updates for the apps I use on the trips. I'll just get the updates a few days before I leave. Maybe hiding them will stop this happening - I'll have to try it.

Let us hope that the big revamp of iTunes will add some of this functionality.]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/13349?rss#comments_16465 Tue, 06 Nov 2012 14:38:02 EST http://tidbits.com/article/13349#comments_16465
This doesn't delete the app completely, as you can also see your "hidden" apps from your iTunes "account" page. But it does seem to ameliorate the problem, doesn't it?]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/13349?rss#comments_16464 Tue, 06 Nov 2012 14:31:29 EST http://tidbits.com/article/13349#comments_16464 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4919, cut it for you? If not, can you say what's lacking?]]>